Bob Gentry
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Bob Gentry is an American Singer-Songwriter
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

 who currently resides in Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

.

Biography

Bob Gentry was born in Detroit, Michigan
Michigan
Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....

 and by the age of 7, was a self-taught pianist and guitarist who started songwriting and playing to express himself.

Moisture

In the late-1990s, Gentry formed the rock band Moisture, then moved to Los Angeles, California and reincarnated the band with new members. A Quick History of Moisture from The Bob Gentry Journal, http://www.bobgentry.com/journal/2010/11/12/a-quick-history-of-moisture/ Moisture performed live on television and was offered a recording contract from Farmclub.com, a branch of Interscope Records
Interscope Records
Interscope Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group that currently operates as one third of UMG's Interscope-Geffen-A&M label group.-History:...

. A Quick History of Moisture from The Bob Gentry Journal, http://www.bobgentry.com/journal/2010/11/12/a-quick-history-of-moisture/ Farmclub was canceled before Moisture was able to release or record a new album and the group eventually disbanded.

Solo career

As Moisture broke up, Gentry released his first solo album in 2005 and another titled Seconds in 2010. In 2006, he won the Los Angeles Music Award for Singer-Songwriter of the Year in the Rock category. Later that year, his song Never Know was placed in the Fox TV Bones (TV series)
Bones (TV series)
Bones is an American crime drama television series that premiered on the Fox Network on September 13, 2005. The show is based on forensic anthropology and forensic archaeology, with each episode focusing on an FBI case file concerning the mystery behind human remains brought by FBI Special Agent...

 .

Also in 2006, Bob joined the cast of the NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

 show StarTomorrow
Startomorrow
StarTomorrow was an online-only musical talent search created by NBC and music executive Tommy Mottola produced by 25/7 Productions in association with CenterStaging and Rehearsals.Com.-History:...

, which featured David Foster
David Foster
David Walter Foster, OC, OBC , is a Canadian musician, record producer, composer, singer, songwriter, and arranger, noted for discovering singers such as Michael Bublé, Josh Groban, and Charice Pempengco; and for producing some of the most successful artists in the world, such as Céline Dion, Toni...

 as a the head judge. Gentry made it to the finals.

The Gentry song "Beat Into You" is on the soundtrack to the film Hollywood & Wine
Hollywood & Wine
-Plot:Diane Blaine has the face of a movie star. Unfortunately, fallen star/tabloid queen Jamie Stephens already made it famous. Hollywoods constant rejection due to what Diane refers to as "TJS" has made her bitter, frustrated....and, yes, whiny. Co-worker/boyfriend Jack Sanders doesn't help...

, which will be released in 2011.

Discography

  • Moisture - "Bastard" 1996
  • Moisture - "Moisture" 2001
  • Bob Gentry - "Bob Gentry 2004
  • Bob Gentry - "Seconds" 2010

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